Only this time it wasn’t Ukraine that left empty-handed. Yesterday, Denmark’s and Greenland’s foreign ministers were the unlucky duo who flew across the Atlantic to run into a wall of intransigence that would put Vladimir Putin’s stubbornness to shame.

Though Donald Trump did not attend the meeting — because, after all, the visitors were foreign ministers, not heads of state — JD Vance and Marco Rubio were the dummies through whom the puppet-master in the Oval Office was speaking.

But the challengers of the day — Denmark’s Lars Lokke Rasmussen and Greenland’s Vivian Motzfeldt — were not here as supplicants. They were in Washington to defend Greenland, an autonomous territory of Denmark, against Trump’s threats of acquisition of a land and a people that do not want to be acquired.

Following the meeting, Rasmussen said it had been “frank but constructive,” adding that Trump was continuing to insist on “conquering” Greenland, which is “totally unacceptable.” He also said:

“We made it very, very clear that this is not in the interest of [Denmark].” [Daniel Bush, BBC, January 14, 2026.]

While agreeing with Trump’s view that security should be intensified to counter any possible threats from Russia and China in the Arctic region, he said that Trump’s allegations of a heavy presence of Russian and Chinese warships around Greenland were “not true.” [Id.]

Neither Vance nor Rubio commented immediately after the meeting. But Trump reiterated to reporters in the Oval Office:

“We need Greenland for national security. The problem is there’s not a thing that Denmark can do about it if Russia or China wants to occupy Greenland, but there’s everything we can do.” [Id.]

. . . which is absolutely untrue, since Denmark, as a member of NATO, has the full military backing of the alliance under Article 5 of the NATO Treaty, which — for now, at least — includes the United States. In fact, several of those European countries have already begun taking steps to increase their defensive positions on Greenland, protecting the island nation — not against Russia or China as the imminent threat — but against the aggression of the United States.

Furthermore, the U.S. already has, by agreement with Denmark, the right and the ability to station as many military troops and facilities on Greenland as it feels necessary. But that is never enough for Trump, to whom outright possession is the measure of his power — whether it’s ownership of real estate, currency, gold-plated trinkets, fake peace prize medals . . . or entire countries.

Because it’s all about him. And he doesn’t care how many people he has to destroy to get what he wants.

Just sayin’ . . .

Brendochka
1/15/26